“I had the best vaccine, it was the virus. No side effects.”

— Jair Bolsonaro

As quoted in "Bolsonaro Says the Best Vaccine for Covid-19 Is the Virus, which Has Killed More than 188,000 in The Country" https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2020/12/bolsonaro-says-the-best-vaccine-for-covid-19-is-the-virus-which-has-killed-more-than-188000-in-the-country.shtml, Folha de S.Paulo (23 December 2020)
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